Allan F. Nicholls
Actor · b. 1945 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Movies24
Movie5.6ActionAdventurePopeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Popeye
1980 · 738 votes
Movie7.3DramaComedyThe intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—and their connection through the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville
1975 · 477 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaTo build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Slap Shot
1977 · 465 votes
Movie6.5DramaA true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · 101 votes
Movie5.5WesternComedyBuffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · 114 votes
Movie5.8CrimeDramaThe lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
Trouble in Mind
1985 · 50 votes
Movie5.5ActionComedyFour retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
The Crew
2000 · 48 votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaMillionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Bob Roberts
1992 · 179 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaMuffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
A Wedding
1978 · 65 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryA look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry with countless films examines some of his most important works, along with friends and regular collaborators.
Altman on His Own Terms
2000 · 2 votes
Movie5.0RomanceDramaThe lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
Welcome to L.A.
1976 · 24 votes
Movie3.6DramaRomanceTwo rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.
Jennifer on My Mind
1971 · 8 votes
Movie5.4ComedyAt a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair.
HealtH
1980 · 18 votes
Movie4.3DramaA DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his straight-laced parents are involved in the marijuana cultivation.
Harvest
1999 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DramaScience FictionCelebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
Threshold
1981 · 19 votes
MovieDocumentaryRetrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
Movie5.8TV MovieDramaAfter three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business with it. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad, ends up rekindling Holly's belief in Christmas all over again.
Moonlight & Mistletoe
2008 · 32 votes
Movie4.0DramaRomanceCanadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Hitting Home
1988 · 5 votes
Movie5.1ComedyRomanceAn uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.
A Perfect Couple
1979 · 19 votes
MovieDocumentaryAn in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," featuring commentaries from the film's cast and crew.
Movie6.6MusicDocumentaryCalled "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief and over by 1975. Now, 35 years later, "Jobriath A.D." spotlights his life, music, groundbreaking influence and the new generations of fans slowly re-discovering him.
Jobriath A.D.
2012 · 13 votes
MovieDramaBrujeria is the Spanish word for witchcraft. Both men and women can be witches, brujos and brujas, respectively. A brujo controls much of the dance and chaos surrounding this troupe. When a young stagehand enters the would of this secluded dance retreat, it upsets the balance of the retreat's lead dancer a couple comprised of a lesbian and a bisexual woman. When the bisexual woman finds herself attracted to the stagehand, their relationship is tested, and the ensuing chaos feeds the brujeria.
Brujo
2019
Movie8.0DramaChildhood friends Barry (Allan F. Nicholls) and Al (Roland Caccavo), having drifted apart 14 years ago, attempt to get reacquainted and figure out life in New York.
Home Free All
1984 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureThrillerAn overprotective mother (Veronica Lake) goes to great lengths to thwart her daughter's (Meredith MacRae) budding romance.
Footsteps in the Snow
1966 · 1 votes